A song that will be about the Back and Tans in the Irish uprising

Black & Tans (Demo 1)

A techno industrial song about when criminals get the electric chair and having peace from living a traumatic life

Electric Chair

04/08/2022

Brutality

https://shadowsystem.bandcamp.com/track/smile-before-the-bullets-single

Being shot down by life and the negative complex things that can happen in life that will bring you down and kill you if you let it. The song is about moving forward no matter what life throws at you and being unstoppable im moving forward an carrying on

Smile before the bullets

Smile Before The Bullets

The song that got into the final 60 to represent ireland in the eurovision 2024.

this song will be released officially before eurovision 2024

In the City

In The City

This is a reworked mixed version with more bass, distortion, deeper drums and vocals to stir the dancefloor up.

Being shot down by life and the negative complex things that can happen in life that will bring you down and kill you if you let it. The song is about moving forward no matter what life throws at you and being unstoppable and moving forward an carrying on
lyrics
White grey walls covered in blood
The first man falls your trigger finger is untrained
Always causing pain I will not rise a gain
I will not live forever
Wipe the smile off your face
You do not know me I'm someone else

Smile Smile Smile before the bullets
Smile Smile Smile before the bullets
Smile Smile Smile before the bullets
Smile Smile Smile before the bullets

Thrown into darkness and brutalized
I'm no puppet I'm a fucking grenade
Scourges clap for me so play your empty tug of war
Your does of poison seeps through the floor
Call upon your cowardly guileless ranks
And found you find you fired blanks

Smile Smile Smile before the bullets
Smile Smile Smile before the bullets
Smile Smile Smile before the bullets
Smile Smile Smile before the bullets

Answer me this answer me now
can you walk the razors edge
Answer me this answer me now
can you walk the razors edge

Smile Smile Smile before the bullets
Smile Smile Smile before the bullets
Smile Smile Smile before the bullets
Smile Smile Smile before the bullets

Iron and blood goes through me
Gun powered revenge broken my chains
And made me king I'm the last bullet in the chamber
You forgot I was there

Smile Smile Smile before the bullets
Smile Smile Smile before the bullets
Smile Smile Smile before the bullets

Smile before the Bullets Reload

Smile Before The Bullets (Reload Mix)

This song made it to the final stages for ireland's eurovision pick in 2025. Many fans said it is a stronger song than Emmy-Laika party that won and ultimately it did not make it to the eurovision grand final 

Gothic / Dark Wave 
Industrial 
Electro 
Synthpop

Blade Runner

07/04/2025

Bladerunner

Concrete Jungle

"New cut 'I Don't Get Anything But Sh*t From You' is a biting piece of electro-punk, sheer bedlam from start to finish." - Clash Music

Hype Machine: http://bit.ly/1Veyhte


I Don't Get Anything But Shit From You

Means to an end (Guitar Idea 16 1 21 Sketch 1)

Remix/booking enquiries email
shadowsytem@hotmail.co.uk.  The cagey shady band based in Belfast N.Ireland making gritty, twisted and dark alternative electronic dance music.
Conceptualised by Australian born Adam Gamble 


Smile Before The Bullets

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